Patents by Inventor Masamichi Asukai

Masamichi Asukai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11595331
    Abstract: The communication system includes a communication unit that receives a conversation of a user, an accumulation unit that accumulates a conversation frame that describes a structure of a conversation generated on a basis of the conversation of the user collected via the communication unit, and a control unit that obtains a feeling parameter related to a feeling of the user who sends the conversation in units of the collected conversation. The control unit further extracts the conversation frame from the conversation on a basis of the feeling parameter, and accumulates the conversation frame in the accumulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai
  • Patent number: 11385647
    Abstract: To provide a mobile body control system, a control method, and a storage medium in which a mobile body can move to an appropriate angle and distance in accordance with emotion of a communication target. Provided is a mobile body control system including a moving unit to move; a measuring unit to measure an angle and a distance with a target which is a communication target; an emotion estimating unit to estimate an emotion of the target; and a control unit to control the moving unit to move a mobile body to an initial position with an appropriate angle and distance with respect to the target in accordance with the estimated emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masamichi Asukai, Atsushi Shionozaki
  • Publication number: 20220210101
    Abstract: The communication system includes a communication unit that receives a conversation of a user, an accumulation unit that accumulates a conversation frame that describes a structure of a conversation generated on a basis of the conversation of the user collected via the communication unit, and a control unit that obtains a feeling parameter related to a feeling of the user who sends the conversation in units of the collected conversation. The control unit further extracts the conversation frame from the conversation on a basis of the feeling parameter, and accumulates the conversation frame in the accumulation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Patent number: 11341148
    Abstract: An information processing system including an acquisition unit that acquires time-series data representing vital sign information of a plurality of persons who share a location in a predetermined time, and a control unit that specifies persons who have a same or similar emotional response as persons having a good affinity with each other in accordance with the time-series data acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20220006764
    Abstract: The communication system includes a communication unit that receives a conversation of a user, an accumulation unit that accumulates a conversation frame that describes a structure of a conversation generated on a basis of the conversation of the user collected via the communication unit, and a control unit that obtains a feeling parameter related to a feeling of the user who sends the conversation in units of the collected conversation. The control unit further extracts the conversation frame from the conversation on a basis of the feeling parameter, and accumulates the conversation frame in the accumulation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Publication number: 20210406331
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a storage medium that can extract group terminals from among a plurality of surrounding information processing terminals that have been detected, and calculate a degree of happiness in a surrounding area. [Solution] Provided is an information processing system including: a communication unit configured to receive identification information from a detection device that detects the identification information of a surrounding terminal device; and a control unit configured to extract, as group terminal devices, a plurality of pieces of identification information that are received by the communication unit and indicate a plurality of terminal devices detected by the detection device within a predetermined time, and to calculate a degree of happiness around the detection device in accordance with an extraction result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Publication number: 20210390849
    Abstract: A mobile unit control unit causes a communication unit to transmit user setting information supplied from an input unit and control data for controlling a mobile unit. A display control unit generates display data corresponding to the human flow data in a human flow data DB, and outputs the generated display data to a display unit. The communication unit transmits control data, measurement area information, and landing area information to the mobile unit, and receives human flow data from the mobile unit and supplies the human flow data to a control unit. The input unit sets setting information relating to human flow data measurement, in response to a user operation. The display unit performs display corresponding to the display data generated by the display control unit. The present disclosure can be applied to a human flow measurement system including a mobile unit and a terminal, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIONOZAKI, Masamichi ASUKAI
  • Patent number: 11190472
    Abstract: Proposed is an information processing system including an accumulation unit that accumulates friend information indicating a friend relationship between users registered in a social media service and posted information, and a control unit that performs, when receiving disconnection candidate user information from a specific user, the disconnection candidate user information indicating a user with which the specific user wishes to disconnect a relationship, control to store the disconnection candidate user information in association with the specific user, and performs, when receiving the posted information request from the user of the client device, control to reply to the user of the client device after filtering posted information posted by the specific user according to passage of predetermined time, depending on whether or not the user of the client device is included in disconnection candidate users indicated by the disconnection candidate user information stored in association with the specific user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai
  • Patent number: 11159462
    Abstract: The communication system includes a communication unit that receives a conversation of a user, an accumulation unit that accumulates a conversation frame that describes a structure of a conversation generated on a basis of the conversation of the user collected via the communication unit, and a control unit. The control unit obtains a feeling parameter related to a feeling of the user who sends the conversation in units of collected conversation, extracts the conversation frame from the conversation on a basis of the feeling parameter, and accumulates the conversation frame in the accumulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20210312090
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including a setting unit that automatically sets a privacy level depending on a user of a communication destination device, a communication unit that transmits a picture of a user of a communication source device to the communication destination device, and a controller that performs control to mask the picture of the user of the communication source device depending on the automatically set privacy level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: HIROSHI IWANAMI, MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Patent number: 11138282
    Abstract: An information processing system, an information processing device, an information processing method, and a storage medium are provided that can extract group terminals from among a plurality of surrounding information processing terminals that have been detected, and calculate a degree of happiness in a surrounding area. The information processing system includes a communication unit configured to receive identification information from a detection device that detects the identification information of a surrounding terminal device, and a control unit configured to extract, as group terminal devices, a plurality of pieces of identification information that are received by the communication unit and indicate a plurality of terminal devices detected by the detection device within a predetermined time, and to calculate a degree of happiness around the detection device in accordance with an extraction result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai
  • Patent number: 11127286
    Abstract: A mobile unit control unit causes a communication unit to transmit user setting information supplied from an input unit and control data for controlling a mobile unit. A display control unit generates display data corresponding to the human flow data in a human flow data DB, and outputs the generated display data to a display unit. The communication unit transmits control data, measurement area information, and landing area information to the mobile unit, and receives human flow data from the mobile unit and supplies the human flow data to a control unit. The input unit sets setting information relating to human flow data measurement, in response to a user operation. The display unit performs display corresponding to the display data generated by the display control unit. The present disclosure can be applied to a human flow measurement system including a mobile unit and a terminal, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shionozaki, Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20210232807
    Abstract: A control section is included, the control section including an accumulation function of, when recognizing a specific user on a basis of sensor data acquired via an agent device, generating episode data in the accumulation section on a basis of a keyword extracted from the sensor data, generating a question for drawing out information concerning the episode data, and accumulating a reply from the specific user to the question in the episode data, and a responding function of, when recognizing the specific user on the basis of the sensor data acquired via the agent device, retrieving the episode data through the accumulation section on the basis of the keyword extracted from the sensor data, and generating response data concerning the retrieved episode data for the agent device to respond to the specific user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Patent number: 11055441
    Abstract: To provide an information processing system, a storage medium and a control method through which a user privacy level in a telepresence system can be set depending on a counterpart. An information processing system including: a setting unit that automatically sets a privacy level depending on a user of a communication destination device; a communication unit that transmits a picture of a user of a communication source device to the communication destination device; and a controller that performs control to mask the picture of the user of the communication source device depending on the automatically set privacy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwanami, Masamichi Asukai
  • Publication number: 20210145340
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a recording medium capable of making a state of a user better according to an emotion of the user and improving quality of life. [Solution] The information processing system includes a control unit that estimates whether a user is positive or negative and has any one of a function of promoting an action of the user when it is estimated that the user is positive, a function of suppressing an action of the user when it is estimated that the user is negative, or a function of presenting a positive interpretation on a situation or action of the user when it is estimated that the user is negative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Patent number: 11003894
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing system, a storage medium, and an information processing method that can make a response to a user on the basis of an episode constructed from an interaction with the user to enhance the user's memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai
  • Patent number: 10937221
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akane Sano, Masamichi Asukai, Taiji Ito, Yoichiro Sako
  • Publication number: 20200293526
    Abstract: [Object], to provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a storage medium capable of more precisely specifying an affinity between persons by using time-series data. [Solution] An information processing system including: an acquisition unit that acquires time-series data representing vital sign information of a plurality of persons who share a location in a predetermined time; and a control unit that specifies persons who have a same or similar emotional response as persons having a good affinity with each other in accordance with the time-series data acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: MASAMICHI ASUKAI
  • Patent number: 10754864
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires time-series data representing vital sign information of a plurality of persons who share a location in a predetermined time and a control unit that specifies persons who have a same or similar emotional response as persons having a good affinity with each other in accordance with the time-series data acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai
  • Patent number: 10719522
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires time-series data representing vital sign information of a plurality of persons who share a location in a predetermined time and a control unit that specifies persons who have a same or similar emotional response as persons having a good affinity with each other in accordance with the time-series data acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Asukai